Lumberville Historic District

Lumberville is a village of about 96 buildings and 3 structures strung along River Road and the Delaware Canal in Solebury Township, Bucks County. Most of its houses are stone or frame, and many of the oldest stand at the south end of the village near the Black Bass Hotel, an inn whose records go back to the 1700s and which once served bargemen. Its commercial life centered on lumber milling, begun by George Wall, Jr. in the late 1700s and later run by Lukens Thomas and the Tinsman family. Rafts of logs came down the Delaware, and coal and limestone moved along the canal, which opened in the 1830s. The village is also tied to the painter Martin Johnson Heade, born here in 1819, and to a group of artists and writers who settled here in the early twentieth century. The district's buildings have kept a high level of integrity, with most changes made to the rear of the houses.